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Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 2

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This is part of Volume II of the CIA History Staff's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation, covering participation in the conduct of foreign policy, dated October 1979 and approved for release in 2011. The appendixes reproduce CIA and State Department cables on the November 1960 Guatemalan army revolt, including Guatemalan requests for arms, ammunition and air surveillance, memorandums on Special Forces trainers, and part of a 1971 oral history interview with Ambassador John J. Muccio. It contains no UFO material.

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Append, 2-B (contd)
l',,~E.MOItl)NDU.M: FOR: Deputy .A.5fjiGt~nt to fb:: "S2C:rCt~L'Y 'II
Defcr..3~ for SV~ci:l\. Ope~~tlcr-ti
l. FQUO"ning our m~~Un.g or Decernbar 2~ ";Jitb Aa.8!stant
Scc1"cb1"Y I~yln" VJO met on De~~mbel' Z-3 with ·z'\~$iGt3.nt"
Secretari' lyfut'~. Ma.nn '(las extremely 1P~3itant t~ ~grc'3 to
any sign;lture by 3. A'ep::es-ontatlve of i'he S~C De~;;r~ent to.
0. dvc.ument. .Afte~ con.s!de~abt0 dl3cus$lon~ 1-..oweve1:'", he
did. ng~ee to th.# possibility of having a ~"~em04at'}1"Jum !or tha
Rocord p;.-e~'Z~d (Guggost~d draft ~tt.;J.chc..-d) wblch could b~
sisned by the Guatemal£\P Amba3Gadvr as .an aCcU?ate :ststc-"
~ent o£ L'le uOOeratanding :-.eached between the GO'llcl'oment
t)f G~a~em<lla and tho United States. The Department then
could -rero~ this signed roertlo~andu:m to tb.9 D-apartment of
D3fcn9~ tor- app:ropi"lare ac::tion.
2. I beUev6 that this ar~angement it it could be cai."rled .
out. v:outc'! n10et the poirJ:i3 r~!9cd by Mr. Irwin. ~..1:r. Man:).
[ott L"-lat lle would at least have to obt3in the CO!;Cu~.eDC~ of
Mr. Mell'Cbn.cl and p03:Jibl, of the Secretary. nef'!)~o a~kL."g
him to do this. it i~ or couZ'tla impo:rtant that we knv"W
d~nnit.el1' whether or not tha abo"e proposa.l would satisfy
the DOD i! carried out. Of cou.rse. ~() bava no e.s9ttt3nc~
at tho mom~nt A3 to whether Qr 'n~t th" G!;t.atemalan AmbaQsador .
witl be willing to agree.
c. T~\CY BARNES
Attachment: Pro?D3ed Draft
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